Bye Bye Bye!

Yesterday was a day that I had anticipated for a very long time! I never thought this day would come. I mean I have dreamed about it, I have even had visions of it, but I never thought it would actually come. But alas, it has!

Yesterday we said "Bye Bye Bye" to our invitations! That is right people, they are officially in the mail!!! Cue the confetti, cue the music that I will be doing my happy dance to, cue the cheering and the clapping! By the way, this is the music that would be playing if we lived in a real life musical...

Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC - *NSYNC Videos

Yes, I was and still am an *NSync fan. How could you not be? I mean really? Haha!

I am beyond ecstatic that our invites are finally in the mail! We worked so hard on them and now they are finally out there just waiting to be in the hands of our guests! I couldn't be more proud(sniffles and tears)! Haha! But seriously yesterday was a big day and we can't wait to find out what our guests think of them.

Here are a few pictures of our invites and of me saying "Bye Bye Bye" to our invites as I put them in the mailbox...

All ready to go and get stamps

All of them with stamps actually on them

This is my brother and my sister in laws invite

The adorable stamps we used
via USPS.com

The first one going in the box

The last stack!

The box is empty!!! Aghhh!

I can't wait to show you guys what our invites actually look like. Don't worry, only a few more days. Once I find out that some of our guests have already received them, I will be posting pics of them because I am so happy with the way that they turned out! They are perfect!!

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. It was such a relief to get those in the mail. But now comes the waiting game of waiting for people to RSVP. I am so worried about that, haha!

What were you feeling when you sent your invitations out? Were you nervous? Excited?

It is...

SNOWING!!!!! We have flakeage, if you will!(Gilmore Girls anyone?) I am so excited that it is snowing. When I was in college I hated the snow because where I went to college it didn't just snow a little, it dumped snow! I mean it would snow so much that we had actual snow days. Sometimes a couple at a time.

The reason for not liking it in college was due to the fact that it never failed that it would snow when I was supposed to go home or someone was supposed to come visit me. This always made it difficult considering that there was a huge mountain pass in between me and my hometown.

Now that I am out of college and I don't have to travel over a mountain pass to get home, I can actually enjoy the snow and that is exactly what I have been doing for the past year now. Too bad we didn't get much snow last year. Let's hope that this year we do. Well, except for around the 7th of January. Please don't snow a lot, haha! I would like our guests to be able to actually make it to our wedding.

Anywho, I just wanted to express my excitement over the snow that is falling here in Colorado. I hope everyone's weekend is going well!

Bachelorette Party Themes?

I need some help ladies! My MOH and I are trying to come up with a fun theme for my Bachelorette party. We have found some fun one's but we are looking for more ideas. Here are the ideas that are in the running right now:

• Black and White Theme
• Superheroes (Can you see a bunch of us running around in super hero costumes in December? Haha!)
• Sex in the City
• Ugliest Bridesmaid Dress
• Scavenger Hunt
• Spice Girls
• Wayne's World(One of my fave movies of all time. This could be interesting! And believe it or not, this is the front runner!)

Do you guys have any awesome ideas for us? I am starting to get more and more excited about this! I can't wait to hear some of your ideas! Thanks in advance!

3 Months Away, Oh My!!

Holy moly, only three months to go! At this point that doesn't seem like a lot of time and it also doesn't seem like it is ever going to get here. Is it normal for things to suddenly feel like they are creeping by instead of flying?  Any who, my list of things to do hasn't really had much completion going on lately. I have been pretty lazy. I know that at this point that I shouldn't be and that I should be trying to get more and more done now instead of later, but for some reason I have just not had any motivation. I have no motivation at work or when I get home in the evenings. I guess I really just need to start making myself get some of this done instead of putting it off.

I hope to get some more of this stuff done this weekend. We have a three day weekend because of Columbus day so I am hoping that I will get my butt in gear and actually work on some of these projects. Here is a list of things that I desperately want to finish this weekend;

• Flip flops for everyone(I need to find a way to attach the flowers that I made to these. Hot glue isn't working and I tried Gorilla Glue, but it takes too long to dry.)
• Circle decals for our new favor boxes that we bought.
• Photo booth sign(I bought a black foam board for this, but I am rethinking this and thinking that I want to get a chalk board and a pretty frame for it. Looks like I need to do some thrift store shopping.)
• Get our invites finished and in the mail by Monday or Tuesday.
• Try and finish our candy jar signs
• Make a banner for the candy buffet
• Finish the tissue paper balls I am working on for a decoration for the candy table 

It is a pretty long list, but I know that I can get a lot of this finished if I really set my mind too it. Something else that needs to get done this weekend for my own sanity is that my apartment needs to be cleaned. And I mean CLEANED!! That is another thing that I keep getting putting off too and now it is just driving me crazy!! I also want to get our Halloween Decorations out. Looks like I have a busy weekend ahead of me. Hopefully on Tuesday I can update you guys with everything that I got done.

Something exciting for this weekend is that we might be getting some snow on Saturday! Fingers crossed!! I hope everyone has a great weekend and I will hopefully be back on Tuesday with some updates for you guys! 

Table Number Idea

For a while now Aran and I have been discussing how we want to do our table numbers. I didn't want to just have table numbers. I wanted something fun and very us that our guests would remember. We have had our thinking caps on for some time now and just have not been able to come up with anything that just screams "Hey! This is what you are supposed to do!"

The other day I was talking with my co-worker and I was telling her about the table number dilemma and she started thinking about it and within a few minutes she came up with such an amazing idea that fits Aran and I both so well.

I know that I have mentioned it before, but I will tell you guys again that Aran and I love movies! We love sitting at home and watching movies or even going to the movies. Old movies from the 30's, 40's, and 50's are some of my favorites. My Grandma and I used to watch old movies together all of the time and she is a big part of the reason that I love these types of movies so much.

Well, my co-worker suggested that we assign each table a different love movie. As soon as she said it, I knew it was what we should do. After telling Aran he agreed too! He loved the idea and we started talking about what movies we would use. We have so far decided that they will definitely be older movies and we want to print out small pictures that are the original movie poster of each movie and have those framed and placed on the place card table and then we will have the place cards of all of the people that will be at that table in front of that poster/picture.

There are two things that we still have to figure out. They are a) which movies we are going to be using. We have a pretty good list going, but at the same time, we don't know how many tables we will have just yet, so that is kind of at a stand still. And b) we are trying to decide if we want to have the movie poster/picture on the actual table or if we just want to print the title of the movie so that it doesn't clash so bad with the rest of the table.

What do you guys think we should do? Should we do the picture? Or just print the title out? What are you doing for your table numbers?

Pink Glitter Flats~Finally a Success Story!

Last week I told you guys about the pink glitter flats that I had ordered from Zappos and then had to return because they didn't fit. I had also mentioned that I had found another pair that were similar to the ones that I had ordered, but they were a different brand. Well, after much thought, I decided to order them. I was kind of weary about it at first because of what had happened with the first pair and not only that, but I had found these ones on Ebay and ordering stuff like this on Ebay scares me sometimes.

Well the shoes were only $9.99 so I figured, what the heck, why not? I am so glad that I decided to go for it! I ordered them on Friday and figured they would be here closer to the end of this week. Well yesterday I checked the tracking on them and it said that they had already been delivered! Holy crap, that was quicker than Zappos was! So I raced home at lunch because my work is a whopping five minutes away from home, and I checked the mail and sure enough, they were there!

After getting them out of the box, I was a little worried because they looked pretty narrow and that was a problem that I had with the first pair that I ordered. But upon getting them on my feet, that worry went away because they fit perfectly!! I was so excited! I was doing a happy dance all over our apartment. I'm sure our kitties were looking at me and thinking, "This lady is crazy!"

I am so happy that I ordered these and that they fit. And, they were cheaper than the original ones that I had found. I am actually thinking about ordering a couple more pairs in different colors because I like them so much. I can't wait to get them on with my dress to see how the bright color pops against my dress. Thanks for all of your comments on what I should do about my shoe dilemma. They were very much appreciated!

Did you have a shoe fail with your wedding shoes? Did you have to order a few different pairs before you found the ones that you wanted?

Scotty McCreery

My Scotty McCreery CD is HERE!!!! And it is a day EARLY!! I love his music so much! Just listening to all of the songs makes me smile. There is something about his voice that just melts my heart!

I pre-ordered this CD back in August and ever since then I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for this CD to arrive at my apartment. Included with my CD was a signed picture of Scotty and really cool poster that has a bunch of messages from fans that pre-ordered the CD through his website. I have yet to find mine, probably because it is double sided and because I don't remember what I put as my message, haha! None the less, my name or initials are on that poster somewhere!!

My copy!

Signed picture

If you guys love country music and haven't heard of Scotty, I highly recommend you download a few of his songs off of iTunes! It is definitely worth it. Well, I just had to tell you all about my love for Scotty real quick, haha! Hope everyone is having a great week so far!